The Dallas Opera 2021-2022 - Madame Butterfly/Flight

24 Jonathan Knipscher , Costume Design The Dallas Opera debut The New York-based designer has created costumes for the opera companies of Central City, Des Moines, Atlanta, Grand Rapids, New Orleans, Reno (Nevada Opera), and Knoxville, as well as the Castleton Festival, Brazil’s FIO Americas, and Italy’s La Musica Lirica. He has also designed for Kansas City Repertory Theatre and for major universities across southern and western America. Knipscher spent nearly a decade as a costume supervisor for the Metropolitan Opera. Recently, he has expanded into film and television, working as a lead tailor, specialty costumer, milliner, or ager/dyer. His recent projects include The Irishman for Netflix, The Greatest Showman for 20th Century Fox, and Transformers: The Last Knight for Paramount Pictures. Barry Steele , Lighting Design For two decades, Steele has created lighting, video, and scenic designs in America, Europe, and Asia. He has important credits in dance (Lucinda Childs Dance Company, Ballet Stars of Moscow, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company) and opera (San Francisco Opera Center, Portland Opera, Opéra de Nantes). New operas such as The Dreamers , Surrender Road , Feynman , Buoso’s Ghost , and Casanova , as well as rarer works such as The Fall of the House of Usher , The Lighthouse , and La voix humaine complement his standard repertoire. Steele has lit more than 100 productions as resident lighting designer of Sarasota Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, and New Jersey Opera. Since 1989 Steele has created lighting for dance for a diverse range of ensembles, and he currently acts as production designer for Battery Dance Company, supervising all productions. Musical ensembles with which Steele has collaborated include the Bang on a Can All Stars, Queen Esther Marrow, the Harlem Gospel Singers, So Percussion, Alarm Will Sound, and the pop noir group Melomane. David Zimmerman , Wig and Make-Up Design David Zimmerman has worked with numerous opera companies around the world, including The Metropolitan Opera, and those of St. Louis, Santa Fe, Paris, Philadelphia, Chicago, Minnesota, Santa Barbara, Amsterdam and more. His career extends to Broadway, as well, where he has worked with such shows as Wicked , Rocky Horror , Show Boat , South Pacific , and Evita . Some of his personal clients include Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato, Susan Graham, Patricia Racette, Martha Stewart, and Ricky Martin. Zimmerman has also worked with DIFFA Fashion Runway, Dallas Fashion and Art, and Yelp.com Fashion Magazine; credits include spreads in Opera News , Vanity Fair , and The New Yorker . TV and Film credits are Glamour Magazine ’s Women of the Year, Margaret (starring Anna Paquin), and Hostiles (Starring Christian Bale and Rosemund Pike). • Licensed by arrangement with C. F. Peters Corporation, New York THE DALLAS OPERA | 2021/2022 SEASON